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Adrian Black

UNCOVERED: Balancing needs key challenge of murray darling plan | History Defined

Stakeholders at the heart of consultations are key to the Murray Darling plan, the authority says. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

A 10-year plan to return water to floodplains and wetlands along the Murray Darling Basin should give irrigators time to adjust, but environmentalists say it's already a decade behind.

The Murray Darling Basin Authority's Constraints Relaxation Implementation Roadmap, released on Wednesday, offers state and federal governments a way forward to achieve the Basin Plan of returning 3200 gigalitres of annual water entitlements back to Australia's biggest river system.

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